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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32:16

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Deuteronomy 32 This chapter contains the song mentioned and referred to in the former, the preface to it, Deuteronomy 32:1; the character of the divine and illustrious Person it chiefly respects, Deuteronomy 32:4; the ingratitude of the people of the Jews to him, who were a crooked and perverse generation, aggravated by his having bought, made, and established them, Deuteronomy...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods],.... Or "with others" (h); the word "gods" is not in the text, nor were the Jews guilty of worshipping strange gods or idols in the times of Christ, nor had they been from the time of their coming out of the Babylonish captivity; but the word, as Cocceius observes, is used for "another", as in Job 19:27; and signifies other saviours, other...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition to them, to take heed of forsaking God. This takes up most of the chapter, in which we have, 1. The preface, ver. 1, 2. 2. A high character of God, and, in opposition to that, a bad character of the people of Israel, ver. 3-6. 3. A rehearsal of the great...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, Demons — not to God.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Moses multiples expressions to show the folly of Israel’s idolatry. Only think of “new gods that came newly up,” as if that which is new could be a god! The same thing may...